If you’ve looked at my blog at all recently you’ll know that over the last six months or so, I’ve been shooting a project with Chef and Forager, Chris Bax. Along with his wife Rose, Chris runs Taste the Wild, operating from their 18 acres of woodland in Yorkshire, providing wild food and foraging courses to successfully promote wild foods …
A Pheasant Plucking time
So straight from filming outdoor pursuits last week, I had one day of rest before setting off again for the last assignment of the year with Taste the Wild. This segment of the project took us back up north on a pheasant shoot in the beautiful countryside of Lancashire. We were invited to follow a shoot that lasted most of …
Come Along and Dine, on this Tasty Swine….
This week I’ve been back working with Chis and Rose Bax from Taste the Wild. It’s always a blast working with these guys and you can read about our previous shoots together here and here. This week Chris met up with Illtud Llyr Dunsford, sometimes known as Illtud, sometimes as Llyr and often by his nickname ‘Bob’. Illtud is the …
Coastal Foraging Shoot
This week saw me shooting the second assignment for Taste the Wild with Chris Bax off the coast of Staithes, the once home town of Captain Cook. We took a fishing trip out into the North Sea with Skipper Sean Baxter, on his boat, ‘All My Sons’, for what became the single most gear drenching experience I’ve ever had. Luckily, …
On Location Food Photography
Most of last week I was working with Chris Bax at his woodland in North Yorkshire, creating images of his wild food dishes. Aside from the desire to work with fellow creatives who are passionate about what they are doing, the interest here was working with the unknown, adapting tried and tested product photography setups to work on a location …
I’m Back!
Back from a crazy busy week spent in North Yorkshire shooting the first of a series of amazing assignments for Taste the Wild with Chris Bax, finished off with an incredible wedding in Portsmouth. This week I got to eat some amazing food, drove 926 miles, took 3,402 photos, managed to get a total of 29 hours sleep, spent my 35th …
Working On The Wild Side
Next month I start an incredible new commercial job that will see me traveling the length and breadth of the country with chef & bushcraft expert Chris Bax. Along with his wife Rose, Chris has traveled widely and experienced life with indigenous peoples around the globe. His love of food led him into a career as a chef, but the …